I just remembered that I wanted to post the link to that book Among the Thugs I mentioned in the lecture about complex systems. It’s an interesting read of first-hand experience with crowds and violence and mob mentality kind of stuff. Plus, it’s all about hooligans, and who doesn’t love that cuddly bunch?
For those of you who enjoyed “Watch the World’s” during Tuesday’s lecture, here are some more SL machinima works by Robbie Dingo. Meteors Masks More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/RobbieDingo
I’m a big fan of Takeo Igarashi’s work in creating interesting and accessible ways for people to participate in traditionally complex, digital, visual creative processes. Over the past few years, he’s developed some very unique “hands-on” interfaces for things like modeling, animating and texturing 3D objects, 2D deformation animations, and so on. While he tends…
What: A Special Presentation Who: Stelarc When: October 24, 2007 @ 7:30pm Where: Fine Arts Building Room 015 “Stelarc, one of the world’s most innovative artists, has been performing and creating multidisciplinary projects internationally since the late 1960’s… his goal has been to look at the body as a tool that can be enhanced by…
So for those of you who don’t know, a large group of us went to southern Indiana’s Patoka Lake this weekend for a break from school and work. I thought that some of you would be interested in seeing how the weekend turned out. Here are my favorite photos that I took:
http://xkcd.com/ “Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).”
Jimmy has sent me a deluge of questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them here. Some answers I am more confident about than others. AMM >What are the defining characteristics of AMM? What is it NOT? I think the defining characteristic that I am settling on is creativity practiced by populations, rather than…
I’m very sorry to inform you but Robert Jordan passed away in the last several days. I have no idea if he completed the last book or not. For those of you who don’t know, the Wheel of Time is a fantasy series of sci/fi books and is an excellent read. The story about this…
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